Dependent and independent variables

• 6.EE.9 -- Graphing Stories -- http://graphingstories.com/ -- asks students to graph real life situations from a video. Site would be useful for understanding graphing of different types of relationships and might be good as an introduction to different function types.

Illustrative Mathematics Task

• Chocolate Bar Sales

North Carolina's Lessons for Learning
Bake Sale Brownies (p. 3) - 6.RP.3, 6.EE.9

• I can use knowledge of multiplication and division to scale recipes to make different numbers of servings.
• I can identify quantitative relationships between scaled recipes.
• I can represent relationships between quantities by plotting points on the coordinate grid.

Paper Clip Comparisons (p. 13) - 6.RP.1, 6.RP.2, 6.EE.6, 6.EE.9

• I can represent equivalent ratios as a ratio table, as a graph, and on a double number line.
• I can analyze ratio tables to identify qualitative patterns.
• I can calculate unit rates by analyzing patterns in data.